New Hampshire
Neo-Nazi link to slayings denied
Investigators did not find neo-Nazi materials in the home of one of the teen-agers charged with killing two Dartmouth College professors, New Hampshire's top prosecutor said Sunday.
Robert Tulloch, 17, and James Parker, 16, are charged with first-degree murder in the Jan. 27 stabbing deaths of Half and Susanne Zantop in their Hanover home near the Dartmouth campus.
Atty. Gen. Philip McLaughlin said an ABC News report that investigators found literature on neo-Nazism, Holocaust revisionism and white supremacy in Tulloch's bedroom was false.
"It was inaccurate," McLaughlin said of the report. "I have no idea what it was that they based their report on."
A spokesman for ABC News, whose program "PrimeTime," aired the report more than a week ago, defended the story.
"We stand by the story. Specific references were made to these items in documents supporting search warrants that the attorney general has opposed releasing," said Jeffrey Schneider, spokesman for ABC News.
Minnesota
Governor who sought highest office dies
Perennial presidential candidate Harold E. Stassen, whose name became a synonym for political futility despite a distinguished career as a governor, diplomat and university president, died Sunday. He was 93.
Stassen died of natural causes early Sunday at Friendship Village, a retirement community in Bloomington, where he had been living for the last few years, said his granddaughter, Rachel Stassen-Berger.
Stassen, a liberal Republican, served as governor from 1938 to 1943. He sought his party's nomination for the White House nine times, the first in 1948 and the last in 1992.
His later campaigns were regarded as little more than political curiosities, although he pushed a serious platform including global disarmament, national health care and full employment through public works projects.
Connecticut
Former financier hears charges
Former fugitive financier Martin Frankel appeared Sunday in federal court to face racketeering and fraud charges.
Frankel is accused of defrauding insurers in Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee. Regulators in those states are seeking more than $600 million in damages from Frankel in civil cases.
Federal Magistrate Joan Margolis refused to set bail. Arraignment is set for March 12.
Frankel, 44, fled the United States in May 1999 but was arrested four months later in a hotel room in Hamburg, Germany, allegedly with nine fake passports and 547 diamonds.
He was taken Friday to Northern Correctional Institution in New Haven after extradition from Germany.
Iowa
Powerball jackpot rises to $16 million
None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday night matched all six numbers drawn in Des Moines to win the $14 million jackpot. The prize goes to an estimated $16 million for Wednesday.
Tickets that match the first five numbers, but miss the Powerball, win $100,000 each, and there were five of those. Two of those tickets were sold in Indiana and one each in Arizona, Missouri and Oregon.
There also was no winner Saturday in the Kansas Cash drawing in Topeka, worth an estimated $410,000. Today's drawing will be worth an estimated $475,000.
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